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Best Motion Picture: The Departed

The DepartedLead Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Lead Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen

Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

Directing: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others, Germany

Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed

Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine

Animated Feature Film: Happy Feet

Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth

Cinematography: Pan’s Labyrinth

Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls

Sound Editing: Letters From Iwo Jima

Original Score: Babel, Gustavo Santaolalla

Original Song: I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth, Melissa Etheridge

Costume: Marie Antoinette

Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth

Documentary Short Subject: The Blood of Yingzhou District

Film Editing: The Departed

Makeup: Pan’s Labyrinth

Animated Short Film: The Danish Poet

Live Action Short Film: West Bank Story

Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Jean Hersholt Award (Oscar statuette): Sherry Lansing

Honorary Academy Award (Oscar statuette): Ennio Morricone

The 79th Oscar awards was held at Los Angeles with its inherent fanfare and glitter. Martin Scorcese won the Best Director award after literally waiting a lifetime for this.

His The Departed also won in the Best Picture category. Martin Scorsese was presented the award by three Hollywood greats, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas.

The Best actor was won by Forest Whitaker who portrayed Idi Amin in The last king of Scotland. The Best actress was won by Helen Mirren who played a convincing Queen Elizabeth 11 in The Queen.

Indian entry through Canada, Director Deepa Mehta’s Water failed to win in the Foreign film category.

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